as said earlier:  blah blah blah

do you have ANY idea how many people are being sent these OFF_TOPIC ramblings?

if you all can't/won't kill this thread, please at least have the courtesy to identify 
is as OFF_TOPIC with a different/changed Subject:

richard

-- On Wednesday, July 28, 2004 12:15 PM -0700  [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:


From: Jim Maul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Quoting Shayne Lebrun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

>> I like virii - it sounds important and like something
>> that can be on the ER equivalent for geeks...
>
> Perhaps, but if you were to actually pluralize it using
Latin rules, the
> result would be 'viri.'
>
>

Wouldnt that be plural of man?

Jim

Never thought of viri, but it makes sense...

hippopotamus -> hippopotami
radius -> radii (probably where "virii" comes from)
virus -> viri (of course!)

FWIW, Dictionary.com comes down squarely on the side of viruses:
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=virus - pl. viruses

http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=viri - no terms found
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=virii - no terms found
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=viruses - 3 terms found

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